Uncle Roudin

My play is finished! I have been working on this play since January 2005, a couple of years after I staged the first part of the three part series Ganz. I staged a movement performance of the play to explore space, light, and the audience reactions.


Photo from Uncle Roudin by Joy Barker, 2005

Now, I have finished writing the 2nd part, Uncle Roudin, which is essentially the second act of Ganz, but may be staged separately from the first act. Each part of the series is a play in itself, and at the same time a part of a larger play. I have written the prologue to the third part, and I will start writing the play this month. Here is the prologue Houdin and the play Uncle Roudin.

Houdin

Sleep deprived
Lost in time
Can't remember how
Nor even why

I never contrived
I'm like a mime
I have to go now
Before I cry

Uncle Roudin

Sensational lantern enchanted eclipse pause deprivation echoes pass riveting internal voices Ethan despairs

Listen (Ganz begins his monologue, Uncle Roudin listens) Odd such turmoil Illegitimate nimbus That imp malingers ebullition.

Chthonian acuity never thought remarkable Ethan manages brevity excepting restless helicity often wearyingly

Now opressions repetitions evolve vindicating Ethan's nepenthes without hindering yesteryear

I need edaphic viridescent ether rather consistently Observing natural telluric residue is vastly effective decontamination

If my laborious injurious keen enactment induces mimesis irrespectively mollifying Ethan

Intact hallucinations apparitions visions ended then orectic gesticulations originating near obscurity would

Become enabling forces offering rational eloquent intentions creating resolutely Yahweh